Progress in all its forms

Need More Thread Photos by VickyTH. Back in an earlier post, I went into some detail about what I was working on and what was to be done. A brief update: Workshop Planning: structures and writeups done need to order supplies, round up old election signs (for painting boards) solicit bottles from The Body Shop…

Taking stock of work

Right. Interview over. Now to get back to workshop planning, show work, Christmas show work and Craft Fair stuff. Workshop Planning – to have finished by this weekend, the write-ups for the fabric painting workshop and the landscape quilting workshop. Included in these write-ups will be: materials provided by me list materials for participants to…

Journalists don’t bite

  colourful language Photos by VickyTH. At least, the one who came to the house today didn’t. Stephanie Porter of The Independant dropped by with photographer Paul Daly to interview me for the paper. I know Stephanie from grade seven through twelve, those years that many of us would rather wash huge portions of right…

A note on beads

bead reflections arranged Photos by VickyTH. I don’t use as many beads in my work these days as I once did, but I suspect that I’ll start using more in the near future. These things go in cycles and the effect of beads is something that I use when I need the three dimensional sparkle…

Self-doubt and seriousness

suncatcher 8 Photos by VickyTH. I have a sneaking suspicion that most of us walk around feeling vaguely insecure about something in our lives. In fact, I’d be mightily surprised if most people didn’t have several slightly wobbily pedestals that they feel can’t support their emotional weight. You hear about them all from time-to-time; weight,…